Wondrous Words Wednesday

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I guess I haven’t been reading anything too challenging because, once again, I had to turn to my Word-a-Day calendar.

1. mansuetude – “The mansuetude of Tina’s voice made it hard for her teachers to hear her over the drone of her louder classmates.”

Mansuetude is a noun that means the quality or state of being gentle: meekness or tameness.